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by pixel_popping 40 days ago
Why would it cost $2000 a month for Claude only? We use about 5 accounts for each person (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and also a few other providers) and our total cost is in the few thousands but for insane amount of tokens (in the billions monthly), we saturate all accounts 24/7. Why not giving 3 Max accounts per employee to reduce cost to $600 a month only?

You might want to look into Minimax coding plan (although it can't be compared with flagship providers) as it's one of the most economical on the market right now.

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I'm assuming they're using the enterprise plan where you have to pay per token and there's no included usage?
And why they don't make many accounts instead? Most startup founders I know are doing so, some have more than 50 accounts in rotation.
It could be marketing for cursor, TBH.